>the church are the good guys What good video james do this?

dragon quest

>>388033070
Trails in the sky
Thief

>>388033210
This
You still fight God in VII but he's a pretty chill dude and just want a fair challenge

>>388033070
Bloodborne

>>388033210
Dragon Quest VIII kinda turned that on its head in a really weird way.

>>388036357
You didn't play the DLC, right ?

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>religion in video games
>is always based almost exclusively on Catholic imagery, but no mention or portrayal of Baptism, Eucharist, Confirmation, Reconciliation, Anointing of the sick, Marriage, or Holy Orders
>the church is either cartoonishly evil and the final boss is god, or the church fights spoopy ghosts and you go there to heal

What did video games mean by this?

>>388033210
This and Castlevania are probably the only examples. Ironic that the japanese can give christian religion more fair treatment than the actual west.

>>388033070
Mainline Castlevania, though their involvement is pretty much just always restricted to "The Belmonts and Alucard are working for them".

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>>388036617
japs are fedoras

>>388036663
>Ironic that the japanese can give christian religion more fair treatment than the actual west.
Maybe because they don't know how disgusting Christianity actually is.

>>388036794
And you probably don't believe in buddhism or shintoism
For them, YOU'RE the fedora
Huh ? How does it feel to be the fat neckbeard with a funny hat for once ?

>>388036897
Not any more disgusting than any other religion.
And several times better then muslims

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>>388036976
mind=blown

>>388036617

The Japs do it because they are enormous racists and fucking hate Christians.

It's not just a video game thing, you see Christians pop up ever so occasionally in Japanese media, I suppose not so uncommon in anime though, and they are always portrayed as either the most evil bastards on the planet or the most retarded bastards on the planet. Their own mystical bullshit always gets nothing but deference and validation.

>>388036663
Kiseki has shown the church to be good.

>>388036617
They mean that they are fucking games not thesis about religions

>>388037021
How many other religions say you will burn forever if you don't believe in it?

>>388037121
>they preserve their own culture in detriment of others
Good for them.

>>388037121
>shit on outside cultures
>put their own traditions on a pedestal
If this was some western country doing this you'd be calling them "based"

>>388036357
You imbecile

>>388038037
Countries should protect their culture and shit on others, without going to war.

>>388038213
This way pal, after you
>>>/pol/

>>388038517
What are you talking about?
You think globalization and killing local culture is a good thing?
Ok man

>>388033070
The Elder Scrolls. Kind of.

>>388036976
I seriously don't even know if religion is a big thing in Japan or what they practice religiously.

>>388038586
I honestly don't even consider "people" who are pro-globalism are human beings.

>>388038990
Buhhdism and SHintoism are still practiced a reasonable amount in Japan, but usually it's a more cultural thing than it is an expression of spirituality. There are Christians there, but they're mainly Western expats with a few local converts (Or people with Western background) sprinkled in.

Most Japanese realistically fall into agnosticism or atheism, belief-wise.

>>388036550
>>388038187
He is right though

yorokobe shounen

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>>388039176
Does this looks like something a good guy would make ?
And don't start with
>yeah but they liked Lady Maria
No. It's called Stockholm syndrome.

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>>388036897
I used to think like this. And then I compare society now to 100 years ago when we held christian and traditional values close to our hearts and how much better the people then are now.

All forms of degeneracy have surfaced in our society now. The nuclear family structure which produced the best people society could have has suffered a complete collapse thanks to women having an identity crisis and acting like children.

The more you see how the absence of religion has caused society to completely shit itself, the more you realise why so many died to protect it.

I could never be religious myself, but I feel as though my family being christian had a lot to do with ensuring we became decent people. Without things like this, people just become selfish, money hungry, jew slaves.

>>388039359
it was necessary

Actually, there's an interesting reference to YHVH ultimately meaning well in SMT: Strange Journey. Despite the fact that the Demiurge goes on a rampage, after you help YHVH gain back his power he will say that he will always help mankind if they obey the holy spirit. It's a subtle but present reference to the fact that actual God (the Great Will) also always means well for humanity in the end. It's the same with SMTIV:A, but that takes place after YHVH goes crazy again. The Great Will is ultimately the one who opposes YHVH, who makes the Messiahs like Flynn, Nanashi, Aleph, and the Hero. And as the Great Will is God with a truly capital G, the church (which exists under his name) is ultimately good.

>>388040228
And the Hamlet's villagers cursed them with the Hunter's Nightmare
For what exactly ?

Great job church, really worth it

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>>388033070
Religion is generally seldom "good".

Religion is about controlling people through fear of the unknown.

>>388040449
>Religion is about controlling people through fear

So like every semitic religion then

>>388039921
>100 years ago in America
>the Gilded Age
>the Mob coming into power
>crazy unions
>horrible living conditions
>100 years ago in Europe
>the first world war
>Marxism and Lenin coming to power in Russia
>horrible conditions for Germany
Look, even talking as a man of faith myself, thinking that a hundred years ago was better then now is a flat-out lie.

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>>388040549
>Religion is like every religion
Yes?

>>388040821
>all religions in the world are semitic

I mean by opposition to other religions like buddhism who doesn't threat you to burn in hell if you don't believe in them

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>>388039921
>US is the most Christan first world nation by far
>has the most violent crime of any first world nation by far

>>388041016
>the most Christian first world nation by far
wrong

>>388039921
>implying the nuclear family isn't a meme generated by boomers who abused their newfound wealth to spread themselves as thinly as possible and get exponentially more in crappy real estate

>>388041016
>crime dispaportionally commited by minorities and immigrants
>minorites and immigrants significantly more Christian than whites
Really makes you think.

>>388040414
The US is worse than the Church in Bloodborne

>>388040939
>I mean by opposition to other religions like buddhism who doesn't threat you to burn in hell if you don't believe in them

It's not about threat. For example, people fear dying (because they don't know what happens to them, etc), buddhism "answers" this.

People want to blindly trust in religion despite there being no evidence to support it because it helps them cope with the fear of the unknown, etc.

This is bad though because you're intentionally deluding yourself.

>>388036617
>Video games never show Quakers, Shakers, Jehovah's Witnesses, Pentecostals, Methodists, Baptists, Anabaptists, Anglicans, Lutherans, Calvinists/Presbyterians, Eastern Orthodoxy, Oriental Orthodox, Evangelicals, Oneness Pentecostals, Messianic Jews, or Mormons
>Seldom even hint at the existence of Protestantism, let alone the concept of "schisms" to begin with

wtf I hate video games now